Name of City/municipality: Armant
Population: 182,151 (2019)
Area: 145 km2
Armant is located in the west of the Nile, about 20km from the city of Luxor. It expands east to the Nile River and west to the New Valley Governorate and from the north the Qurna center
Name of Governor: H.E. Mr. Moustafa Mohammad El-Hamm Khaled
Contact: ramadan_sadek2003@yahoo.com
Website: http://luxor.gov.eg/default.aspx
Main features:
Armant is an agricultural city in the first place, famous for its cane and banana plantations and has also a wide commercial activity. Furthermore, Armant is a historic city where its remnants cover different periods of ancient Egyptian culture. It was an important Middle Kingdom town, which was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty.
Main economic activities:
The agricultural sector in the village is of great significance and is one of the most important sectors for the local economy growth where more than 25% of the population work in it.
The commercial sector in the city is ranked second after the agricultural sector, most of which depend on agricultural production in the center. Moreover, there is a sugar factory in Armant that belongs to the governmental public sector and is considered one of the largest factories for producing sugar in Egypt.
Another thing to consider is that more than the third of Armant’s population, around 35%, work in the tourism sector and in the tourist cruises, representing a large part of the income; all that Due to the presence of historical and cultural sites reflecting the importance of the tourism sector.
Conditions and environmental challenges:
The average urbanization in Armant is around 41.3%. In line with that, the Unemployment is a major obstacle due to the lack of job opportunities, as well as the absence of government and service sectors jobs such as education and health. Moreover, at the present time, about 55% of the youth of Armant who were working in the fields of tourism and restaurants, have lost their jobs.
Armant has a desert climate. During the day, the temperature is warm to hot, and can be cold at night sometimes. Its average annual temperature is 28° degrees, with an 8 mm of rain a year. Armant is dry for 350 days in a year.